Can't y'all just beat your breasts over the loss? All the human potential, lost right down the drain of bad decision making; as bad, as wasteful as abortions, but more sorrowful, because these were full-born humans deliberately instructed in debased existing, unaware of a higher purpose.
At 17, her son already had a record of bad living, even if not strictly illegal, and all Treyvon's mother can consider now is that her son's "reputation" not be tarnished in death. Lady Ma'am; he already did that himself in life, and where were you? "Mah baby din do nuffin".